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A Supreme Court decision three years ago upheld the right of CEF to hold Good News Clubs after hours in public school buildings. The high court ruled 6-3 that religious clubs such as CEF, which had contact with 4.9 million children last year, couldn't be prevented from meeting after hours if other private groups also are allowed to gather.

CEF has just published a devotional book that enables children to evangelize their friends. New CEF materials also are geared to reach high-risk children, including those with a parent in prison. CEF has teamed with prison ministries to send Bible studies to 43,000 children of inmates through its Mailbox Club program.

"Even if we get the church to pay proper attention to children, there are still 80 percent who don't walk into a church every week," CEF president Reese Kauffman said. "We need to be concerned about the children outside the church, [too]."

John W. Kennedy is news editor of Today's Pentecostal Evangel, the weekly magazine of the Assemblies of God.

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Child Evangelism Fellowship has information about its Good News Club and how to start one.

More on raising children can be found at our sister publication, Christian Parenting Today.

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July 2004, Vol. 48, No. 7